Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. " Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future. Concrete examples were needed. Who is the audience for your feed?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Moreover, mocking people or organizations whose maps don’t succeed hardly seems noble, and could even deter experimentation.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Your organization's crisis plan should include a social piece in the communications section. Social helps you be your own media.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Here are four things it’s done that serve as examples for any traditional company, including advertising agencies."

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " I couldn't agree more!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "This month, we bring you some great examples of how non-profits are using wikis.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). But, despite these numbers, for most organizations and causes raising money via social media is still a hard thing to do. Which are best/worst?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " How to Piss off an Online Community – 4 Recent Examples | Search Engine Journal – "People are resistant to change.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Women Rule the Philanthropic Roost!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). These are but two recent examples of how decentralized digital networks can have dramatic effects on centralized hierarchies.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

You can set up an individual page, or one for your organization. How it works for nonprofits: This is a chance for you to link all of your social media profiles into one and give your constituents a real understanding of what makes your organization tick. This is a crowdfunding site that your organization can use to fundraise.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). But what we have to understand is that this behavior doesn’t benefit our organizations nor the communities we seek to serve.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Do you have a branded online community for your organization or project? " What do you think? How did you ensure participation and membership?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. And they're winning.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). A study for non-profits | Think Social – "Two weeks ago, Mashable posted a how-to for non-profit organizations trying to use Google Buzz.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Here are five examples of the citizen philanthropist’s immediate impact."

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). There are some important social media strategies for transforming those one-click “slacktivists&# into fully engaged activists.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? ARC - gather data every morning and share with organization via email; issues that seem sensitive or are newsworthy will contact subject matter experts to follow up. Feed digest. Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. Listening tools: Netvibes.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

And as a nonprofit organization, the start of October also means you’re entering the last quarter of the year and the beginning of the year-end fundraising season. Organizing an exciting scavenger hunt is no easy feat, but luckily, there are a few tools you can use to help make your event a success. Spooky scavenger hunt. Use an app.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Even better, I could browse, collect, and organize files on my own gopher and make it available for others to "gopher surf.". Even in the early days of the web, there was the urge to organize collections of files and links. It made it easy for me to navigate through public files available on the Internet in a linear way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

That aside, Joistke goes on to reflect on the usefulness of tagging and rss feeds for her work with communities of practices (and by extension - nonprofit organizations.) which then helps the organizations do the work that creates the change. Concrete examples were needed." than my enthusiasm for technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. You may need to begin with a small, low-risk listening project and share the feedback with others in your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds. the documentary on youtube for possibly useful example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. is and why it matters to their organization. tools and business applications for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I have some static resources there, several dynamic resources (like syndicated feeds of certain categories of my Furl archive and the main column of posts or articles. Can you give me an example of some advice you've given some nonprofits? What do you blog about? I try to write there at least 4 times a week.

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Forum One

JUNE 24, 2008

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

This is a great example of an “outside looking in” photo that was included in an appeal for a horse therapy program. Here are some examples: Weak: Lakeland Food Pantry serves Lakeland and the surrounding Polk County area by offering free or subsidized food items to qualifying families. A good example of this is a donor’s phone number.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). This is What a Librarian Looks Like – I love this example of a Tumblr blog used for a perspective-changing campaign.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Because COVID-19 paused in-person engagements and thus traditional fundraising events, many organizations had to quickly scramble and pivot their operations to virtual. Specifically, for organizations using our Qgiv peer-to-peer platform, we saw the mean donation amount of $87.46 in 2019 increase to $108.62

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1. For example, the Non-Profit Tech Blog installed custom search feature using the google coop. RSS Widgets: I installed grazr which easily puts my bloglines feeds that I'm reading on my sidebar in a nifty little directory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Here's his definition: A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). But did you know that non-profit organizations are pinning, too?" Do you think it would be valuable for your organization or a waste of time?

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